A psychological evaluation is being requested for a woman arrested December 12 following a series of bizarre actions including coming into a person’s house uninvited and walking her dog while only partly clothed.
The announcement that the evaluation was being sought for 38-year-old April Dawn Gessner of Gassville was made during a session of Baxter County Circuit Court Monday (January 27).
Gessner was booked into the Baxter County Detention Center on charges including residential burglary, disorderly conduct, two counts of attempted residential burglary, possession of drug paraphernalia and criminal mischief
According to court records, Gessner has listed a number of other names during the years, including April D. Ray, April D. Miller, April D Rasmussen and April D. Altenbaumer.
Gessner’s latest arrest came after she was reported to have entered a man’s house along County Road 9 in the Gassville area uninvited and while he was taking a shower.
The man was reported to have backed Gessner out of his residence at gun point. The victim then called law enforcement with a description of the intruder.
A Baxter County sheriff’s deputy responded to the report and began to search for a person matching the description given by the original caller.
He reported finding a blue Honda Civic parked across the street from the original caller’s residence. When the car’s license plate was run, it showed the vehicle belonged to April Miller/AKA April Gessner.
After checking further, the deputy located a female walking her dog along Marler Lane. When the deputy stopped and asked the woman, later identified as Gessner, several questions, he reported not getting very clear answers. He said when asked what she was doing in the area, she replied, “I dont know.”
After Gessner had been taken into custody and put into a patrol car, another victim reported that his daughter-in-law had said someone had just tried to break into her home.
When the deputy responded to check out the second report, a neighbor came and said that a woman had tried to enter her house as well.
The deputy went back to the residence where the original caller lived and he confirmed that Gessner was the person who had come into the house.
As the deputy was enroute to the county jail where Gessner was to be booked, she is reported to have been “rambling about people being murdered and talking to herself using the third person.”
According to the probable cause affidavit, Gessner had begun screaming during the trip to jail when she caught sight of her pants and shoes in the road and asked the deputy to stop so she could retrieve her property.
She is reported to have told the deputy she had shed her pants and shoes “because she was hot.”
According to the probable cause affidavit, the deputy found a glass smoking pipe in Gessner’s pants containing suspected marijuana residue.
The deputy said Gessner continued to show signs of being under the influence of narcotics during the trip to jail.
It is alleged that Gessner placed her backside against the “cage” that separates the back and front seats of the patrol car and began to jump up and down.
As the gyrations continued in the backseat, the deputy’s two-way radio stopped working. After dropping Gessner off at the jail, the deputy determined the wire to the antenna had been unplugged sometime during the trip to the jail.
Gessner is charged with one count of residential burglary and two counts of attempted residential burglary, all felonies.
She is also facing misdemeanor counts of criminal trespassing, criminal mischief, disorderly conduct, possession of drug paraphernalia and public intoxication.
Her bond is set at $25,000.
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